Profile Description

Welcoming environment for research students

Research students are welcomed to Brunel as valued members of our thriving, research-intensive community. We work closely with our PhD candidates and supervisors to ensure that our PhD students get exceptional experience and achieve excellence in their research. We particularly welcome students who have a solid academic background in relevant subject fields, evidenced by their past grade performance.

Research areas

Our research is focused in our five research areas: Economic Development and Institutions, Empirical Finance, Accountancy, Corporate Governance and Macroeconomics, and Health Economics. Within each group we have built a broad base of skills that allow us to respond to the ever-changing research environment. Each group encourages and supports individual researchers, from those just starting out as PhD students to those who have reached the highest levels of achievement.

Centre for Economic Development and Institutions: country's economic performance as affected by its institutions - institutions that function to secure property rights, govern firms, allocate credit, redistribute wealth, select political leaders, and so on.